postcolonial

Papers sought for a special session to be proposed for MLA 2016 on any aspect of nineteenth-century science fiction. Potential angles on this topic may include:

- proto-science fiction - texts traditionally not viewed as science fiction, reconsidered as aligned with the emergence of the genre - historical/cultural influences on the emergence of the genre - literary/cultural impacts of the emergence of the genre

300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 15 March 2015, sent to Jessica Kuskey (jkuskey@ucsc.edu)

This panel seeks papers about the diverse manifestations of democracy and patriotism in American fiction. Open to a wide range of areas, periods, and approaches within this broad topic. Submissions might address (but certainly are not limited to):

Works can be in prose or poetry (or experimental) and should be pertaining to any dimension of travel/travel writing or its representation in writing, film and other media. Your subjects may address, but are not restricted to, the following domains:

Filolog (Philologist) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal with an international Editorial Board.

We are calling for papers dealing with contemporary literary, cultural, and language theories and/or their applications to particular works for the third issue of our journal. We would also welcome papers dealing with meta-theories and their significance for the human and social sciences, as well as reviews of the most recent books in the field of cultural, language and literary theories and criticism.

Papers should be a maximum of 7.000 words, and use the New Harvard Citation System. Papers must include abstracts and key words. Authors should also provide a short bio (up to 20 lines).

Racial Representation in American Cinema: A Three-Volume Encyclopedia Set

Attention: Film and Race Studies Scholars!

Seeking Authors for Racial Representation in American Cinema: A Three-Volume Encyclopedia Set

Entries needed on films, genres, stars and directors for volumes on Early, Classical and Contemporary Cinema.

Edited by Dr. Daniel Bernardi, Interim Dean at San Francisco State University, author of Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future and The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, and Professor Michael Green, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University.

Interested? E-mail raceincinema@gmail.com with a brief (1 page) CV and areas of interest no later than February 15.

Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers—is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them within over-all strategies. [...]There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. (Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Vol. 1: An Introduction )